Scrapping Simulator News

Update v0.28.6 Is Live!

Hi there everyone, first off I would like to apologise for my absence lately, a few things have happened in life that have impeded my ability to take a moment and sit down at the computer. After the last Scrapping Simulator update, adding the new fences and a few other things, it seems this update had just increased the Game Engines performance requirements just enough to make it crash when trying to Save and or Build the Project.
During this time, a very close family member, my Grandmother, had been hospitalized and was fighting a very potent blood infection, that had little chance of clearing even with the strongest of antibiotics. After the news from the doctors that we were not going to win this battle, my Grandmother wanted to come home to live the remainder of her life, providing I would be able to care for her and administer medication when any pain would arise, which I had no hesitation in accepting as my Grandmother had dropped everything to support me and keep me off the streets, it's only fair I returned the favour and support her in her time of need and grant her last wish of coming back home.
She had passed away peacefully in her sleep and was not in pain for very long.

I would like to give a big thank you to everyone for your patience and support, which has been a great help in pushing forward with this project and keeping the dream alive.

I understand some of you may be upset that for 2 months of no update and this is all there is to show for it, again I do apologize, but I will always put family first.
I agree that I should have at least given some news about the situation, which I did touch on briefly in the Discord server about the Family and Hardware situation.

All that aside here are the Patch notes for the v0.28.6 Update

[h2]Patch notes:[/h2]

• Reworked the Ingot Shelf Saving and Loading Method by Manually saving each individual Ingot Value of the 3 different Shelves which does slow down the Saving/Loading Process, but ensures that there is little chance that data will be lost.
  
  
• Fixed the bug where Ingots would randomly change their size when being added and removed from the Shelves and or Carry box.
  
  
• Introduced the 100g Silver Ingot to the Game, which to create is a similar process to the current Gold Refining Method and you will be able to Add either Raw Silver or Raw Gold to the Beaker to begin the process.
  
  
• Fixed the Floating LCD TV Sale Object in the Pawn Shop.
  
  
• Fixed the Ingot Duping bug in the Chemical Refining Process.
  
  
• Fixed the position of the Disassembly Tips so they are no longer overlapping the Key Text and Bag Icon.
  
  
• Fixed the bug where eWaste would stop spawning on the streets after some time playing, it was found that old code was stopping timers when the RNG would land on bins that have eWaste Spawns disabled, the script now has 3 chances to roll a bin that can spawn eWaste otherwise it just starts the Randomization process again rather than stopping all together.
  
  
• Fixed the 'Current Score' and 'Best Score' being out of sync by one action on the Mine Sweepin' Mini Game.
  
  
• Fixed the Chemical Drying Bug where if you Saved the Game while Gold/Silver is Drying, it would get stuck drying.
  
  
• Added an Achievement for winning a game of Mine Sweepin'.
  
  
• Fixed Server Motherboard Child Error, which was found to be the Randomly Generated RAM Selection becoming corrupt after saving/loading thus the MOBO was thinking the RAM has not been removed.
  
  
• Fixed the Server RAM Animations not playing whilst disassembling.
  
  
• Fixed the Command Panel not activating since changing to the Tilde Key and made it so upon opening the Command Panel it now Pauses the Game.
  
  
• Added an [X] button and the ability for [ESC] to close the Command Panel.
  
  
• Made it so you can no longer open your inventory while sitting at the computer, this is to avoid getting stuck in 'busy' mode after closing the inventory panel while sitting.
  
  
• Renamed 'Toxic Waste' on the PC Market and Scrap Yard to be called 'Chemical Waste' to be more easily recognisable.
  
  
• Fixed the PC RAM having a similar bug to the Server RAM, by Manually saving and loading the individual Randomized RAM Types and Values and put a delay on the start-up of the Randomization Script so it doesn't re-randomize before all Data has been loaded and applied.
  
  
• Fixed the bug with the Chemical Refining Set allowing you to skip steps by enabling/disabling the Agitation Pump.
  
  
• Made it so the 'DefectGaming' logo does not play if coming from the Game to the Main Menu, only when the game is initially booted up.
  

Update v0.28.5 Is Live!

Click to view a guide on how to minimize Save-File Corruption: https://github.com/FuryFight3r/ScrappingSimulator/wiki/How-to-minimize-Save-File-corruption-when-Updating-Scrapping-Simulator


[h2]Patch v0.28.5-1 Notes:[/h2]

• Fixed the Trolley Spawning stuck inside the Hardware Store Wall upon purchasing.
  
  
• Updated the Controls page for new controls and key binds, and tidied the panel up a bit.
  
  
• Made all Bounds Colliders 'Ignore Raycasts' which means if any item gets wedged outside the playable area and doesn't fall down to the Bug Box Collection Colliders, you at least have a chance to pick it back up again
  
  
• Removed the Colliders from the Barriers around the map, as Bound Colliders are more optimized and a lot less of them.
  

[h2]Patch notes:[/h2]

• Fixed the Billing system sometimes initiating 2 bills at a time, by adding a delay to the initialization of the billing cycle on game start-up.
  
  
• Fixed the typo in the 'new email' notification.
  
  
• Updated the Pawn Shop Sign for the Sale Area.
  
  
• Overhauled the way Ingots are added to the Scrap Yard Ingot Area, the Shop Panel also no longer flickers on/off while adding Ingots as it now updates all the information at once when the shop is opened, rather than updating each time an Ingot is added.
  
  
• Added some Barriers around the Scrap Yard Ingot Sale Area to help from any ingots falling to inaccessible places.
  
  
• Overhauled some aesthetics around the map to make it look less like a prison and more like a residential area, even though I know I said I would not spend time on this map, however I truly despised the way the old map looked and am still not 100% happy with it, but at least its not as much of an eye sore as it was before.
  
  
• Overhauled the way the Hardware Store and Pawn Shop displays information when hovering a buyable object, which is far better optimised than the previous 'on-scene' way of doing it.
  
  
• Added the ability to drop the Ingot Carry Box Into the Scrap Yard Ingot Sale Area to make selling Ingots a little less tedious.
  
  
• Added and Improved many LODs for objects around the Map to improve overall performance.
  
  
• Changed the Key Bind for the Command Panel to the Tilde [~] Key and also added the function to close the command panel by pressing the Tilde key again.
  

Patch Update v0.28.4 Is Live!

WARNING: POTENTIAL SAVE CORRUPTON UPON UPDATING!

If your Game Save is corrupt 'NEVER' Save your Game in the broken state as this will permanently destroy all potentially recoverable data and will be very hard, if not impossible to fix.

If you have noticed your Save-File has become Corrupted due to the update, please click the link below for a guide on how to minimize the possibility of save corruption, and how to fix it if it does happen to be corrupt.

If you have saved your game on v0.28.4 and then later noticed that things are broken/missing, there is no use in attempting the below fix of returning to the 'previous build' as there is absolutely ZERO backward compatibility when attempting to return to an older version of the game if your Save-File is from a newer version.
In such the case, you can either Send your Save-File to FuryFight3r (the Dev) at an attempt to fix the issues (no promises though) or Continue playing with broken/missing Items, or simply start a fresh game - Please be mindful with Popups in-game warning about the potential of save corruption and always remember, Scrapping Simulator is like no other game, Most Interactable Objects are saved in their EXACT STATE so if an object is broken, your first thought may be, "oh that's fine, Ill just Save and reload" though unfortunately doing this in Scrapping Simulator almost guarantees that the object will now be permanently broken and Saved in it's broken state and along with that, now that the games been reloaded the initial Error Log printed when the Item broke will most certainly be lost, thus making it even more difficult to Find and Fix the problem. Nevertheless almost each and every update patches are being added to slowly chip away at these annoying issues.

I do apologize for the potential Corruption of Save Files, I had made a bit of a mistake on version v0.28 that had gone un-noticed until now with all the eWaste (carriable) RAM Stick Modules and the way about fixing this has caused any Saved RAM Stick to corrupt your Save file. The work around for this is listed in more detail in the GitHub Wiki Guide below, but long story short, you will need to 'opt-in' to the 'previous_version' build for Scrapping Simulator, remove ALL RAM Sticks from your game, whether you Sell them or Scrap them is up to you, Save the game, 'opt-out' of the 'previous_version' build and return to 'none' to be on the latest version and then attempt to load your now fixed Save File.

Click to view a guide on how to minimize Save-File Corruption: https://github.com/FuryFight3r/ScrappingSimulator/wiki/How-to-minimize-Save-File-corruption-when-Updating-Scrapping-Simulator

NOTE: To access the Commands Panel you will need to press [Right CTRL] + [F9]

[h2]Patch notes:[/h2]

• Fixed Aluminium Ingots getting stuck Inside the Ingot Shelf and not being recognised as an Ingot.
  
  
• Added the 'return_ingot_box' Command that returns the Ingot Carry Box to the Bug Box in your bedroom.
  
  
• Changed the UI Name for the 'Aluminum' Ingot to 'Aluminium' in the Scrap Yard Ingot Sale Panel.
  
  
• Repositioned the Warning text for the Ingot Sale UI at the Scrap Yard so it doesn't overlap Ingot Sales.
  
  
• Had another attempt at fixing the Ingot shelf Issues with it getting mixed up with the amount of Ingots that are contained by adjusting the way Ingots are added and removed, I also added a 'reset_shelf' command to reset the ingot shelf, reset the counters for the shelves, release all ingots and temporarily disabled the Shelf to remove any bugged ingots, you can then re-type the 'reset_shelf' command to re-enable the shelf once the bugged ingots have been removed.
  
  
• Added a list to the Command Panel, to show players the current available commands.
  
  
• Added a Scrolling Panel to the Scrap Yard Ingot panel to avoid having Ingot UI's overflowing and overlapping the buttons.
  
  
• Added a fix for removing missing Objects from the Object Reference List, which helps the Saving and Loading System by removing Bugged/Missing Objects.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the Queue Text would sometimes remain on-screen, by making it so after Finishing/Stopping Disassembly it resets the texts and disables the Queuing UI until you are disassembling again, at least so the text is not permanently stuck, I am still diagnosing why this happens and will then implement a proper fix.
  
  
• Added patch for the Ingot Carry Box, now if you attempt to remove an Ingot from an empty slot, instead of it throwing an error, it notifies that nothing was available in that slot and remove a single value from the Ingot count to move onto the next item.
  
  
• Fixed the RAM Sticks causing the Server Motherboard to become stuck and unable to disassemble and the corruption issues with eWaste RAM Sticks after saving and loading caused by Clashing Reference ID's - Unfortunately this is expected to corrupt all prior Saved Ram Sticks, which may still be able to be sold at the Pawn Shop (Old Saved Server's may still be broken .
  
  
• Added Green and Red Transparent Tiles to the Mine Sweepin Mini-Game, Green representing the points you have collected and red being the Bomb/Mine that was clicked.
  
  
• Made it so the Added Materials Values only display 2 Decimal Values, so the text doesn't go small or overlap.
  
  
• Fixed that if you Click the Bag Icon to close the Inventory Panel it now Reactivates the Character and un-pauses the game.
  
  
• Fixed the 'Best Score' text in the main game of Mine Sweepin, it now updates correctly and shows the stored Best Score.
  
  
• Fixed Aluminium ingots not being able to be sold at the Scrap Yard.
  
  
• Overhauled the Credits UI Panel to provide more useful information and add more credits where due.
  
  
• Overhauled the Game Update Notice UI's presented when the game recognizes it has been updated to a newer version, including potential corruption risks involved with the update.
  
  
• Fixed the Crucible not being detected by the Furnace until the Crucible is removed and re-added after Saving/Loading, by adding a delay to the start-up of the crucible.
  
  
• Fixed CD Drive warnings of Multiple LOD Groups and added LODs to the new inner components of the CD Drive - Which unfortunately may cause unexpected issues with prior saved CD Drives.
  
  
• Fixed buyable object prices at the Pawn Shop, the Prices are now linked to the new Dynamic Price System.
  
  
• Added LODs to the Pawn Shop Sale Objects, slightly improving performance.
  
  
• Fixed the Material Added Icon animations sometimes getting stuck in warped forms while disassembling.
  
  
• Updated 'Junk Items' to the new Inventory Material Adding System.
  
  
• Made it so that if the Stats panel is enabled in the 'Tab' Panel, when enabling the panel the stats are now updated rather than only opening the 'Stats' Tab would update the stats.
  
  
• Fixed the Mine Sweepin game UI Issue and added some new SFX for Clicking, Revealing the Tile and Winning the game.
  
  

Patch Update v0.28.3 Is Live!

[h2]Patch notes:[/h2]

• Fixed the Ingot Shelf Issue with it getting mixed up with the amount of Ingots the shelf has contained after Saving/Loading.
  
  
• Added CD Drives and SSD's to the Refined Disassembly Mechanic, they will now be able to be disassembled after removing it from it's parent object.
  
  
• Added the 'Mine Sweepin' Mini-Game to the PC.
  
  
• Changed some UI Panels on the Main Menu to look a little nicer.
  
  
• Made some optimisations towards the Garage area and its Objects with LODs.
  
  
• Fixed Large Crystal Oscillator Animation on the PC Motherboard, the CD Drives in the PC and the Small Capacitor animations on the GPU.
  
  
• Reworked the Raw Material gain method and added the 'Tab' Inventory system to help keep the HUD/GUI cleaner and is far better optimized compared to the previous method.
  
  
• Implemented a simple Queueing System while Disassembling, it will need a bit of work in the future as you are unable to Queue an object that has a sibling still alive (ie if you Que to remove a CPU Fan, you will not be able to add the CPU Heatsink to the Queue until the CPU Fan has been removed).
  
  
• Added 18x New Steam Achievements, 4 of which being Hidden Achievements.
  
  
• Added a Mechanic to eWaste objects that generates a price based on the Raw Materials that are available on the object, which saves having to manually set each price in the Pawn Shop and allows the price to be dynamic based on the Raw Material worth of the object.
  
  
• Added a similar mechanic to Ingots much like the eWaste Items Price Generator, though it is a bit more basic and just generates a price based on the Ingot type and it's current market value, which again saves having to manually add sale prices to the pawn shop.
  

Happy New Year all!

Patch Update v0.28.2 Is Live!

[h2]Patch notes:[/h2]

• Updated the Buttons for 'Report a Bug' and 'Have a Suggestion?' they now no longer refer to the Defectgaming website and send an email form, they now link to the GitHub which is where all bug reports, suggestions and other information will be held.
  
  
• Added a 'Road Map 2022' button to the Main Menu and in the Pause menu, to link you to the GitHub Wiki of the Road Map.
  
  
• Lowered the volume of the Boat Engines so they are not as loud.
  
  
• Adjusted the Vehicle Engine sounds playing to be muted while the 'DefectGaming' logo is showing and while the game is loading and also lowered the volume of the vehicles overall.
  
  
• Adjusted the Main Menu quality presets to improve performance.
  
  
• Removed the Ingots flowing from the Main Menu Furnace to improve performance.
  
  
• Baked 90% of the lights on the Main Menu which has some down-sides, shadows are now less quality and the Game Size is increased though this greatly improves performance for the Main Menu by not Updating all the Shadows real-time.
  
  
• Added a School Bus and City Bus that randomly spawn on the Main Menu for a little bit more variety for a total of 19 variant vehicles and removed the Vehicle Exhaust smoke to improve performance.
  
  
• Added and adjusted some props on the Main Menu to be a little more appealing.
  
  
• Made it so the Trolley cannot be released while either in Mid-Air or while currently moving, this is so the Trolley does not get stuck in the air and so the SFX don't continue playing after releasing the Trolley.
  
  
• Lowered the speed of the player while using the Trolley to feel a little more realistic.
  
  
• Fixed HDD reader arm animation speed.
  
  
• Fixed GPU Heatsink animation flicker while disassembling.
  
  
• Improved the Hardware store, the Frame Rate should be little better when walking into the Hardware Store.
  
  
• Fixed the TV spawning issue after looking at the object, it no longer falls through the map.
  
  
• Changed the Mailbox texture to a Low Poly (flat) version rather than the HD Texture to suit the game style.
  
  
• Fixed the Billing System sometimes sending the normal bill and a small bill right after.